I personally am anxious over this.
I feel like I'm stuck between wanting to just keep the old version, but also have the new version.
My biggest fear is that losing maps with terrain will at times limit my personal gameplay.
For example, a number of builds and roleplays and games and the sort that I have done, have been based on terrain maps.
Whether that's a tropical desert island or a hilly map with a couple of lakes, I've used them to give me a great atmosphere for my build.
I can see myself being able to recreate them to an extent with bricks, sure, but do I really want 20k+ bricks used on just the terrain of my build and then trying to build on top of that?
I understand that it'll be quite nice to see this sort of thing, and if I were to make proper terrains with this, then shadows from hills and mountains and valleys would be absolutely beautiful and stunning, but I'll still feel slightly limited.
While I want Blockland to progress, and I know that it's been waiting for an addition like this for some time, I just can't help but worry that in the process it'll be removing a large portion of the game which I've used to large extent and have previously heavily relied upon.
There's a point where you can't create much more atmosphere with just bricks and a skybox.
But until I reach that point, I'll continue to enjoy the new beauty within the game and put what I can to good use.
I'll miss some of those old saves and games I used to play on hilly-terrains, but I've done plenty enough on slate maps. I've probably done more on slate maps than terrain maps, but it doesn't quite overcome the feeling of loss for those fewer, but great times on terrain maps.
I am curious though as to the Tutorial and the Demo system.
I'm sure that something will be done about the tutorial, and I'm certian it's not too difficult for a brick-based tutorial map+save to be created to replace the current one, but I have a little bit of concern over the game in Demo version.
Personally, for me, when I had the Demo version, I wasn't really excited by Slate.
I mean, it's a blank-canvas and I have a teensy pot of paint.
The reason I enjoyed the Bedroom and Kitchen maps when I joined was probably just because it gave me a little bit something else to see and enjoy in the Demo.
Sure, I may have only built a tiny little base with some lights, but building as I did, a base sticking off of the side of the pictureframe in the kitchen or on top of the kitchen light gave me more entertainment on the Demo than I would expect I could've had in just a slate map.
I don't personally know if I would have enjoyed the empty slate with my few bricks well enough to entice me to buy the full game.
Anyway, that's all my real concern. I'll look forward to whatever is put forward and done, but I can't help but feel a little bit sad to see the old stuff go. But hopefully this leads on to a new era of Blockland. More interesting updates with newer features, more creativity upon slate maps and more work into texturing of slate-maps for new atmospheres.
Sorry if I asked a question that's already been asked or answered. I didn't read all of this. I hope you'll forgive me for not reading all 57 pages.
